His Mom Passed And Everything Changed

A second generation Irishman felt the shame from his grandfather’s alcoholism through his Mom. A good kid growing up in a religious family he always looked down on alcoholics and alcoholism. He always thought that if he drank “like that” it would kill his Mom. Irish Catholic guilt kept him out of the booze through college, the Navy and into his early career. Coke and weed were somehow OK but it wasn’t until his Mom died that the wheels came off. He made a run at sobriety through AA after an intervention and lasted almost exactly a year until he “decided to have a drink”. No more than days later laying in a hospital bed not knowing what happened he decided to get serious about sobriety. He’s been “Gung-Ho” ever since.

Wed, 20 April 2016